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The ANHD Blog raises the profile of our issues, and educates our member groups, city decision makers, and the general public on our core issue areas. The ANHD Blog offers sharp, timely and effective commentary on key public policy issues, as well as our work and the work of our member groups.
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March 8, 2016
The proposal for development at 25 Kent Avenue began the ULURP process in January with considerable attention. Crain's New York rightfully referred to the project as a "barometer for how the de Blasio administration will treat commercial developments in manufacturing areas."While the proposal for the property will be voted on at the local community board this evening, the end product of the proposal is a new zoning tool that can influence industrial neighborhoods across the city.
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March 7, 2016
The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Make the Road New York, and New York Communities for Change are calling on the City Council to withhold support for any Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) proposal that does not guarantee affordable housing that truly meet the needs of our communities. Community groups and local residents have made it clear that the Mayor's proposal does not go deep enough, and must be amended to include a "deep affordability option."
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March 7, 2016
The City Council is getting set to consider major zoning legislation in the next few weeks. As negotiations between the Council and the Administration shape the final proposals, addressing the affordability crisis must be at the center of the policy. With so many zoning proposals in the news and before the Council, it is important that each proposal be understood on own its merits.
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March 7, 2016
New York Community Bank (NYCB) has taken an important step forward by submitting a "CRA Plan" to bank regulators in anticipation of their acquisition of Astoria Bank. Regulators are increasingly looking for a forward-looking CRA plan as part of any merger and acquisition application - a stance strongly supported by ANHD.
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February 25, 2016
As much as New York City is a city of renters, nearly a third of New Yorkers own their own homes. Responsible, affordable homeownership has long been recognized as an important way for people to build wealth and move into the middle class. Yet, lower-income people and people of color have consistently been locked out of the housing market or targeted with harmful products and practices.
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February 21, 2016
The City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings is holding a hearing today on several pieces of legislation intended to provide new tools to address the pervasive problem of harassment and displacement of low- and moderate-income tenants. One important bill would create a new citywide Certificate of No Harassment Program, which community groups believe would help disincentivize the harassment and displacement of tenants from affordable, rent-stabilized apartments.
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February 18, 2016
The community development movement lost a leader when Jay Small, ANHD's Executive Director from 1992 - 1998, passed away on February 12th in Flatbush, a stone's throw away from where he was born. Jay took over the stewardship of ANHD after organizing in both Williamsburg with St Nick's, and then in East Flatbush with Flatbush East CDC.
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February 12, 2016
ANHD applauds Comptroller Thomas J. Curry for emphasizing the requirement of CRA future planning by banks when they submit an application for a merger or acquisition, and for making it clear that regulators must evaluate these plans in addition to looking at the banks' prior CRA ratings.
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February 9, 2016
The Mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) proposal is rapidly making its way through the City's ULURP process. On February 3, the City Planning Commission (CPC) voted to approve the de Blasio Administration's MIH proposal with modifications.
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February 5, 2016
On Wednesday the City Planning Commission (CPC) voted to approve the de Blasio Administration's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) proposal, with a few modifications. MIH is now officially in the hands of City Council, which has until approximately the end of March to vote on MIH.